Development Stack and stuff

For the past year or two, I had been dabbling with different technologies, frameworks looking for an ideal combination of frontend, backend and development tools. Following are what I tend to use and recommend for both personal and consultancy projects.
I usually customize most of these open-source projects as per my needs

Project Management

• Asana - https://asana.com

Database

• MongoDB

CMS

• Calipso - http://calip.so/

Bulletin Board

• NodeBB - http://nodebb.org/

Configuration Management

• Etcd - https://github.com/coreos/etcd

Logging and Analysis

• Logstash - http://logstash.net
• Kibana - http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana
• Log.io - http://logio.org

Search

• ElasticSearch - http://www.elasticsearch.org
• Algolia - http://www.algolia.com

Source Control

• Github – http://github.com

AWS – Amazon Web Services

• SQS – Simple Queue service
• SES – Simple Email Service

Hosting

• Rackspace / Amazon
• Digital Ocean - https://www.digitalocean.com

Image processing

• GraphicsMagick with Node API - http://aheckmann.github.io/gm/

Development Tools/Frameworks/Languages

• .NET
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • ASP.NET WebAPI for REST services - http://www.asp.net/web-api
  • Dapper.NET or Simple.Data for SQL ORM’s and MongoDB CSharp Driver for MongoDB access
  • FluentSecurity for user authentication and roles http://www.fluentsecurity.net/
• NodeJS
  • NodeProxy for proxy and load balancing service
  • Node Cluster for Multi Node process
  • Node Express Boilerplate - https://github.com/mape/node-express-boilerplate

Misc Libraries and websites

• ASP.NET Razor Helpers - http://www.mikepope.com/blog/documents/WebHelpersAPI.html
• OverAPI - http://overapi.com/
• JQuery Plugins - http://www.unheap.com/
• MicroJs - http://microjs.com/